As the title suggests (or actually just states outright), I don't like to write. I have never liked to write. I would much rather be doing a whole host of other things like exercising, watching TV, playing games, playing music, talking, or just sitting doing nothing. I don't keep a journal or a diary. Writing a simple thank you note is like torture for me. I am even annoyed when I have to write a check.
So why have I decided to start a blog? Well, I would love to say that I hope that regular practice will make the process easier and slowly begin to develop deep down within me an affinity for putting words to paper. But despite generally being a very optimistic person, I am particularly pessimistic that this experiment will have any effect toward lessening the pain and suffering I am about to put myself through. I mean, I have been writing for something like 35 years now - through grade school and high school and college and grad school and a career as a teacher and school administrator. I have put in over double my 10,000 hours. I have a writing callous on my middle finger that looks like a birth defect and sends my kids running away screaming, "Dado, don't touch me with your disgusting finger bump!" Screw writing! It couldn't save the Ancient Egyptians even when it possessed magical powers and looked way cooler than the squiggly lines we make.
In any case, I have still committed to writing this blog, but just because I want to better understand WHY I don't like writing. I am a creative guy with lots of ideas in my head, and my wife doesn't always appreciate me talking her ear off every night. I should want to do this. I should be embracing it. And as I mentioned above, I have done it enough that I should be at least halfway decent at it. So WHY? WHY do I hate it so? Well that is what I am hoping to get out of this, and I apologize ahead of time for all the times that I get overly metacognitive and write blog entries analyzing what it felt like to write other blog entries. But maybe I will learn something, and for all of you out there that also have a distaste for this form of civilized communication, perhaps it will give you something to think about as well. Please let me know your thoughts. It's time for me to stop this agony and go back to sitting and doing nothing.
So why have I decided to start a blog? Well, I would love to say that I hope that regular practice will make the process easier and slowly begin to develop deep down within me an affinity for putting words to paper. But despite generally being a very optimistic person, I am particularly pessimistic that this experiment will have any effect toward lessening the pain and suffering I am about to put myself through. I mean, I have been writing for something like 35 years now - through grade school and high school and college and grad school and a career as a teacher and school administrator. I have put in over double my 10,000 hours. I have a writing callous on my middle finger that looks like a birth defect and sends my kids running away screaming, "Dado, don't touch me with your disgusting finger bump!" Screw writing! It couldn't save the Ancient Egyptians even when it possessed magical powers and looked way cooler than the squiggly lines we make.
In any case, I have still committed to writing this blog, but just because I want to better understand WHY I don't like writing. I am a creative guy with lots of ideas in my head, and my wife doesn't always appreciate me talking her ear off every night. I should want to do this. I should be embracing it. And as I mentioned above, I have done it enough that I should be at least halfway decent at it. So WHY? WHY do I hate it so? Well that is what I am hoping to get out of this, and I apologize ahead of time for all the times that I get overly metacognitive and write blog entries analyzing what it felt like to write other blog entries. But maybe I will learn something, and for all of you out there that also have a distaste for this form of civilized communication, perhaps it will give you something to think about as well. Please let me know your thoughts. It's time for me to stop this agony and go back to sitting and doing nothing.
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